Padel is the next big thing Everyone in the United States is playing Pickleball. Everyone! Yet I think a sport that is fairly new to the United States, padel, is set to eclipse the growth rate of pickleball. Padel is a sport that looks like a combination of tennis, pickleball,
On Trustworthiness Trust is finicky. It can be gained, lost, and faked. Perhaps no skill matters more than the ability to know who to trust, how much to trust them, and for how long. Knowing if someone is telling the truth, or not, is one function of trust. Just as
As many of you know, my brothers set out on a journey 5+ years ago: to create a niche farming brand. Acorn Bluff Farms [https://acornblufffarms.com/], following in the footsteps of Thistledown Farms, [http://www.tdfarmsllc.com/] our cattle business with less branding but an avid local following in
Suburb always felt weird to me. Disquieting, weird, just WRONG. I couldn’t place my finger on why until I really began to dig in. Not only are suburbs missing almost every element that I’ve identified as necessary for making someone feel at home, [https://jaredtodd.com/2020/03/
In the town I grew up in in Iowa, there was a rutted, bumpy, unmarked dirt path across a cornfield that had been used as a shortcut to Highway 61 south of town since I was young. It was called the “Cow Path” and saved a good 5 minutes off
Subsidies are hated by most every economist. Economists believe subsidies distort markets and reward dollars to inefficient projects. The 30% solar Investment Tax Credit (ITC) is often decried [https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/renewable/wind-and-solar-tax-credits/] by oil and gas think tanks, libertarians, and pure market economists. Read this quote from what
Pandemics are deflationary. A demand shock happens before a supply shock. It takes times for supply chain disruptions to be felt, but people stop buying immediately. A good portion of what we buy is discretionary. Entertainment, travel-these are dollars that do not have to be spent. Food must be purchased,
Originally Published [https://medium.com/@jared_todd/rules-for-feeling-at-home-2278a6b284ee] on November 24, 2019 While traveling, I’ve tasked my free headspace with discovering the hidden algorithms (aka set of rules) that seem to govern the places that are both beautiful and in which I feel at home. Barcelona. Old downtowns in
Originally published [https://medium.com/@jared_todd/the-inherent-paradox-of-psychotherapy-c61ff7cf8d06] on Medium on June 2, 2019 Contemporary wisdom asserts that we are not evolving or moving towards or from a state. Our existence is a product of a random evolutionary process. The dynamic state of the world at large also renders many
Originally Published [https://medium.com/@jared_todd/software-eats-design-next-e4cbaee4078e]on May 13, 2019 We’ve all heard it. “Software Is Eating The World” or so sayeth Marc Andreessen. Andreesseen postulated in 2011 that as microprocessors allow us to automate more and more tasks, every business will eventually become a software business.
Originally Published [https://medium.com/@jared_todd/the-prevailing-immigration-theory-of-californians-525de0a5959] on April 17, 2019 I’ve spent part of the last week arguing on Twitter with a couple of Not In My Backyard (NIMBY) proponents on Twitter. They neglect many of the possibly good argument for their stance, resorting instead to a
Originally published [https://medium.com/@jared_todd/the-ghost-in-the-collective-machine-d3f0d581cbe9] on February 27, 2019 Descartes talked a lot about dualism-how our minds and bodies are intertwined yet separate, with the mind hypothetically taking precedence over the body. Here’s Wikipedia on themind-body [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind%E2%80%93body_problem]